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Concerning the Angel at 5th & 53rd
2023-12-06by J. P. White Every city has them——pools of helmeted, stained men Clustered around engines grinding through night. White arc lights sear ...
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Concord Hymn
2023-12-06by Ralph Waldo Emerson By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And...
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Consolation Miracle
2023-12-06by Chad Davidson In the pewless church of San Juan Chula, a Neocatholic Tzozil Indian wrings a chicken's neck. Through pi?oned air, stars from tou...
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The Weakness
2023-12-06by Toi Derricotte That time my grandmother dragged me through the perfume aisles at Saks, she held me up by my arm, hissing, "Stand up," thr...
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The Weary Blues
2023-12-06by Langston Hughes Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other ni...
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Constellations
2023-12-06by Steven Heighton After bedtime the child climbed on her dresser and peeled phosphorescent stars off the sloped gable-wall, dimming the night vault o...
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The White Room
2023-12-06by Charles Simic The obvious is difficult To prove. Many prefer The hidden. I did, too. I listened to the trees. They had a secret Which they were abo...
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Continued
2023-12-06by Piotr Sommer Nothing will be the same as it was, even enjoying the same things won't be the same. Our sorrows will differ one from the other an...
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The Widening Spell of the Leaves
2023-12-06by Larry Levis Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving south toward a large city famous For so little it had a replica, in concr...
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Continuity
2023-12-06by A. R. Ammons I've pressed so far away from my desire that if you asked me what I want I would, accepting the harmonious completion of the drift...